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Most major internet services and social networks claim to be as transparent as possible regarding user privacy, but there are times when legal issues prevent them from doing so. Data requests from the likes of the NSA and FBI in…

As we all know, companies like Google are under pressure from government agencies to hand over private data from time to time. Recently new information surfaced regarding the search giant passing data to the FBI regarding WikiLeaks some years ago,…

Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are quietly using a radar-style device that allows officers to look through walls to determine if anyone is inside a home. At least 50 agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, are…

Following the attack on Sony Pictures in November, the US government was quick to point fingers at North Korean hackers. This is because the NSA has been tracking them with malware for years now, according to new reports.

CIA-based data analytics company Palantir Technologies graced headlines in December 2013 over the fact that its valuation had shot up from $6 billion to $9 billion in less than three months. The secretive firm is once again in the news…

Law enforcement officials in the UK, in cooperation with the FBI, have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with DDoS attacks that took down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live service on Christmas Day.

The US government has taken a lot of heat for publically blaming North Korea for the hack on Sony Pictures last November. Up to this point, however, they haven’t provided many details as to what led them to that conclusion…

As previously reported, there are a number of US national security agencies, including the FBI, that want to have the right to build secretive backdoors directly into consumer electronics hardware. This essentially means manufacturers would be forced to include security holes…

Roughly a week after hackers breached Sony Picture Entertainment's computer network, the FBI has warned US businesses about a new hacking threat that appears to be coming from the same type of malicious software that affected the movie studio, according…

Silk Road 2.0, the spiritual successor of the original online drug marketplace, has been seized by law enforcement. The FBI, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, arrested its alleged owner yesterday in San Francisco.

FBI Director James Comey has, unsurprisingly, come out and slammed Apple, Google and other tech companies for offering encryption on devices such as smartphones. Comey said he was "very concerned" about strengthened encryption in mobile OSes, saying it could work…

The mystery surrounding how the FBI managed to trace the geographic location of Silk Road web servers, which were supposed to be obscured behind the anonymity service Tor, has apparently been resolved.

While Tor is generally thought of as a place where those who want their online activity to remain anonymous, a new report suggests the FBI has been successfully tracking users across the network for some time.

There's been plenty of discussion as to the benefits that self-driving vehicles will bestow upon society in the not-too-distant future. The FBI, however, believes driverless cars of the future pose a far greater risk than most of us have likely even…

When the FBI brought down the world’s largest online drug marketplace last year and arrested alleged mastermind Ross Ulbricht, they also took possession of the site’s assets – nearly 30,000 Bitcoins. On Thursday, the US Federal Marshalls moved those coins…

After having been postponed six times, the sentencing for infamous LulzSec hacker-turned-FBI informant Hector “Sabu” Monsegur was finally handed down on Tuesday. Judge Loretta A. Preska of the Southern District of New York sentenced him to time served plus one…

Microsoft yesterday disclosed that it successfully challenged an FBI National Security Letter asking for data from one of the company's Office 365 enterprise customers. The letter, which hadn't been approved by any court, was issued last year with a nondisclosure provision…

A collection of e-mails and invoices obtained by the Syrian Electronic Army claims to show how much Microsoft charges a secret division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to legally collect and view information about its customers.

After reports that parts of President Obama's NSA crack-down were put in motion through a secret court ruling, a new report from The Wall Street Journal says that four proposals on how to reform the NSA's mass phone data dragnet…

Back in August, when the FBI was investigating Freedom Hosting, an anonymous web hosting company known for sheltering child porn, it managed to clone an entire server of Tor Mail, a popular anonymous webmail service hosted on the company's network.
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Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old alleged mastermind behind the online drug marketplace Silk Road, still maintains his innocence. But those 173,000 Bitcoins the FBI confiscated as assets believed to have been used to facilitate money laundering and six failed murder-for-hire attempts……

According to leaked Snowden documents, American and British intelligence agents have virtually infiltrated World of Warcraft and Second Life. Based on reports from The Guardian and The New York Times, documents dating back to 2008 point at agents creating anonymous…

It’s going from bad to worse for alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht as federal prosecutors in New York recently filed paperwork accusing him of ordering six murders for a total of $730,000. Two murder for hire plots were detailed…

Members of the hacker collective Anonymous have been infiltrating US government computers across multiple agencies for the better part of the past year. The attackers initially used an exploit in Adobe ColdFusion to gain access to systems starting in December…